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Lawyers Run Amok
Doug Bandow, a nationally syndicated columnist, is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author and editor of several books. As Washington, D.C., prepared for the descent of thousands of anti-globalization protesters last fall, George Washington University law professor John Banzhaf proposed deploying the ultimate weapon: trial lawyers. Hit the demonstrators with a [...]
1Apr2003 | Doug Bandow | 1 comment | ContinuedFast Food and Personal Responsibility
Ninos Malek teaches economics at San Jose State University, De Anza College, and Valley Christian High School. By now everyone knows that the fast-food chains are being sued because they allegedly contribute to obesity. On Fox’s “Hannity and Colmes” program last July, Samuel Hirsch, the attorney who filed lawsuits against McDonald’s, Burger King, Wendy’s, and [...]
1Jan2003 | Ninos P. Malek | 2 comments | ContinuedWho May Harm Whom?
Smoking has been one of the hot controversies of our time. Many people find tobacco smoke annoying, smelly, and just plain dirty and unpleasant. Some smokers themselves agree. ut today’s smoking restrictions, not to mention the attack on smokers and extortion of tobacco companies, could not have been engineered simply on the grounds that tobacco smoke is unpleasant.
1Apr2000 | Walter E. Williams | 0 comments | ContinuedRegulatory Extortion
Thomas DiLorenzo is a professor of economics at Loyola College in Baltimore, Maryland. This article is based on a presentation prepared for the Ludwig von Mises Institute’s conference, “Austrian Economics and the Financial Markets,” last September in Toronto. In 1978 Michael Jensen and William Meckling, writing in the Financial Analysts Journal, offered an extraordinarily gloomy [...]
1Mar2000 | Thomas J. DiLorenzo | 8 comments | ContinuedTaxation by Litigation Threatens Every American Business
Abusing the legal system for political, social, or greedy ends is fast becoming America’s favorite pastime. Billions of dollars, millions of jobs, and the survival of legitimate businesses are at stake. And if the Clinton administration’s latest lawsuit fantasy proceeds, Katie bar the door: government itself will become the biggest abuser of them all—with the [...]
1Sep1999 | Lawrence W. Reed | 0 comments | ContinuedIgnorance Is Bliss—Maybe
Not having experienced much of the past is a mixed blessing. What’s grotesque, shocking, and unheard of to older Americans might seem normal, perhaps just a bit curious, to younger Americans. For example, last year New Orleans Mayor Marc Morial brought suit against gun manufacturers to recover carnage costs in his city.
1Jul1999 | Walter E. Williams | 0 comments | ContinuedSmoke Got in Their Eyes
Economics pervades life. Many people (not Freeman readers) will misinterpret that remark to mean that money is all that’s important. That common misinterpretation testifies to the dearth of economic education in America. To say economics pervades life is the same as saying that choice pervades life. Everything we do volitionally requires that we choose one [...]
1Mar1999 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedFor Your Own Good: The Anti-Smoking Crusade and the Tyranny of Public Health by Jacob Sullum
The Free Press • 1998 • 288 pages • $25.00 John Attarian is a freelance writer in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and an adjunct scholar with the Midland, Michigan-based Mackinac Center for Public Policy. Hounded by billboards and other “public-service” exhortations, barred from lighting up almost everywhere but in their own cars and homes, and saddled [...]
1Mar1999 | John Attarian | 0 comments | ContinuedHigh Plains Drifters: Politicians’ Lucrative Protection Racket
Fred McChesney teaches at Cornell Law School and is the author of Money for Nothing: Politicians, Rent Extraction and Political Extortion (Harvard University Press, 1997). “Politicians are interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs.” —P. J. O’Rourke The idea that politicians sell special favors to special interests [...]
1Jan1998 | Fred S. McChesney | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Tobacco Deal: Myths and Misconceptions
Robert Levy is senior fellow in constitutional studies at the Cato Institute and author of the Cato Policy Analysis, “Tobacco Medicaid Litigation: Snuffing Out the Rule of Law.” The deal being forced on tobacco companies, whether it is the original negotiated agreement or one amended according to President Clinton’s liking, is manifestly unconstitutional and nothing [...]
1Jan1998 | Robert A. Levy | 1 comment | ContinuedOr Else . . .
Russell Madden is a communications instructor at Mt. Mercy College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Extortion has always been a favorite activity of governmental agencies. Ordinarily, threatening someone with harm unless he accedes to another’s demands is rightfully a crime. Whether the perpetrator is a neighbor seeking to use your lawn mower or an organized-crime thug [...]
1Dec1997 | Russell Madden | 0 comments | Continued-
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